Thanks. My mental map of the region isn’t complete is it.
I didn’t realize Finland wrapped around and met Russia.
Look, you can’t march on your neighbors and take them over
and then expect your neighbors not to want an alliance to
protect themselves.
Putin is his own worst enemy. People know what he has been
up to.
Agree!!
Putin by following this desire to restore the borders of Imperal Russia (be the new Czar) may have made things very very bad for Russia in the near future.
He’s making it an international pariah, ratcheting up dissent in his own country in a big way, will likely cripple it economically even with an annexed Ukraine (it will be a wreck of devestation and useless drain econmically!)
All he will end up doing is making Russia weaker and China stronger. He may gain Ukraine and lose Russia’s Far East. The US under Biden will continue to play switch with its thumb and slide downhill and will be of no use as a counter to China.
China will come to dominate